Word: sportsmanship
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...opponent's foul shot. Harvard fans have little to gloat about. They run a close second in this department. Their actual cheering, as at Hanover, is commendable, but this is unfortunately overshadowed by a continuous din of catcalls directed at the officials and rival players. This petulant display of sportsmanship reached a high point in last season's Columbia game. The referee had to warn the locals that unless the Bronx cheers stopped Columbia would win by forfeit. It's a good thing the Dartmouth boys only show up for football games...
...fiercest exchange of charges came through the undergraduate papers of the colleges. Yesterday, the Princetonian stated editorially: "The issue involved is more than the issue of a specific football game.... It is the issue of fundamental decency and sportsmanship in athletics." Prior to its editorial, the Princetonian ran several columns attacking 'Dartmouth's play last Saturday and throughout the season
...spirit which says, "Keep trying until you win," is a lot more commendable that the theory of "avoid the impossible." Harvard's sportsmanship in dropping Holy Cross, Army, and Cornell from her schedule, is obviously not in the same class with Brown's through forty years of defeat. As for cancelling a scheduled game, nothing more disgusting has ever happened to Harvard. John W. Sears...
...nine major league stars, listened to some coaching tips from Elder Baseball Expert Bernard Baruch, first-baseman at City College of New York some 60 years ago. To 1,200 boys between the ages of 10 and 18, the staff will teach the finer points of baseball and sportsmanship...
...Right Rev. Horace W. B. Donegan, Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, dedicated a new sports window in Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The window was planned by the late Bishop William T. Manning, who believed good sportsmanship and religion had much in common. To illustrate his point, the stained-glass window shows the symbolic figures of athletes surrounding medallions of Esau the hunter, Jacob wrestling with the Angel, and St. Paul with his advice to run a good race. On the wall will be added the names of some modern sports giants: Tennis Champion Robert...